RedHook, Brooklyn

Joey / Desire / 1975

Born in RedHook, Brooklyn in the year of who knows when,
opened up his eyes to the tune of an accordion

GREGWEST@delphi.com:
Red Hook is a neighborhood in Brooklyn. It was once Italian, but is now almost entirely Black. It is not a nice area- lots of dirty factories and seedy docks nearby (which may be why Joey had his fatal love of seafood.)
From: castlenut@aol.com (Castlenut)
Subject: Re: Dylan Fans Education?
Date: 12 May 1995 10:39:49 -0400

Bard is in Upstate NY, about 200 miles north of NYC, 20 miles north of
Poughkeepsie, 60 miles south of Albany. It faces the Catskills on the
East side of the Hudson River (Woodstock is about 30 miles West in the
mountains). Probably the easiest (and free) way to get there is to
somehow get on the Taconic State Parkway north out of NYC (or south from
the Thruway, near the Mass Border). Get off on the Red Hook/Rhinebeck
exit, Rt 199 and head towards Red Hook (not the same one as in Joey, there
are two of them in NY State), heading west towards the mountains. Bear
right at the first light, go straight through the second. At this second
light you're in downtown Red Hook and you should see a sign with a person
in a cap and gown. I think people steal the little sign underneath that
says BARD, but the straight ahead arrow should still be there. A few
miles later when you're back in the apple farms take a right at the
blinking yellow light at the bottom of the hill. Now you're on Rt 9G.
From the Taconic to here it's about 10 miles or more. At the next
blinking light take a left and you're in Annandale (Made famous by Steely
Dan). The road forks in front of you...To the right is Bard, To the left
is a gorgeous road, Straight ahead in the bucolic green triangle is a
gazebo type thing which houses the PUMP, sans handle. There's another way
to get there via the Thruway & Kingston on the other side of the River,
but I'm not up enough on the directions to give them out (I know the Route
Number for the exit is the same, but that's about it). While you're in
the area you can go to the New Age Shopping Mall they named Woodstock. A
map would guide you quite well. Summer in the Hudson Valley is the best
season of the year...I wish I was there.